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• Whiteout

  How Canada Cancels Blackness

  Clarke, George Elliott,

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  Informative essays that challenge Canada's "multicultural humanitarianism", revealing the historical forces that have sought to erase the African-Canadian experience.

• Echo Tree

  the Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

  Dumas, Henry, 1934-1968,

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  Highly dynamic collection of "African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction" all produced before the age of 33, when Dumas was murdered on the street by a transit police officer in 1968.

• The Wretched of the Earth

  Frantz Fanon ; Translated From the French by Richard Philcox

  Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961,

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  Fanon defines colonialism as "not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state". A psychological analysis of the colonized and colonizer to challenge subjugation and reinforce the meaning of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

  Hurston, Zora Neale,

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  Supremely influential author of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston delves into the reinterpretation of American culture by Black people to produce an identity beyond their oppression. Zora’s anthropological eye captures the essence of what it means to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Before Elvis

  the African American Musicians Who Made the King

  Lauterbach, Preston,

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  "Elvis Presley ain't got no soul. Jimi Hendrix is rock 'n roll. You may dig all the Rolling Stones, but everything they did they sold." -Yasiin Bey.

• Sister Outsider

  Essays and Speeches

  Lorde, Audre,

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  A massive contribution to critical social theory and postcolonial feminism, Lorde's sheer command of language lands at the intersection between race, gender, sexuality, and class to nurture the power of human difference.

• The Fortune Men

  a Novel

  Mohamed, Nadifa, 1981-

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  An idealistic sailor from colonized British Somaliland is wrongfully convicted and faces execution. A deeply moving critique of institutional racism, unveiling intimate struggles of the displaced and shunned while preserving their autonomy as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Invisible Boy

  a Memoir of Self-discovery

  Mooney, Harrison,

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  "You can tell when the eyes that regard you are in love with you." A transracial memoir of bittersweet reunion between a son and his biological mother. Mooney's examination of internalized anti-Blackness, reinforced by religious dogma of abusive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Boys Like Me

  Confrontations With Race, Identity, and Belonging

  Morris, Matthew R.,

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  A dialogue on belonging for a young Black man in a culture where stereotypes govern personal interests and thus restrict one's agency, obstructing the path toward a "true knowledge of the self". Eight essays speak on degrees of Blackness, hip-hop…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

  a Novel

  Soyinka, Wole,

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  Are Nigerians among the happiest people on earth? This wild political satire from an 86-year old, Nobel prize winning legend won't answer that question, but presents new questions - are members of Nigeria's elite involved in trading human body…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just Mercy

  a Story of Justice and Redemption

  Stevenson, Bryan,

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  A young civil rights lawyer fights injustice on death row against a legal system that targets racial minorities, the intellectually disabled, and marginalized youth. True crime journalism with the highest possible stakes.

• The Man Who Lived Underground

  a Novel

  Wright, Richard,

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  An explosive and complex portrayal of a cornered Black man fleeing prejudice, and a tragedy of othering and of the delusional inhumanity that spearheads solutions to America's "negro problem".

• As the Earth Dreams

  Black Canadian Speculative Stories

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  Brand new collection of Canada's most exciting fictional world builders in ten short, concentrated bursts of brilliance.